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February 23, 2015, Monday

Iraqi security forces on Friday repelled an attack by Islamic State insurgents against an air base in Anbar province where U.S. Marines are training Iraqi troops, Iraqi and U.S. military officials said.

Twenty-two U.S. Marines were injured on Thursday in a training exercise at Twentynine Palms military base in Southern California, when a fire extinguisher system accidentally discharged inside an amphibious vehicle, officials said.

February 12, 2015, Thursday

U.S. Marines destroyed their personal weapons at the airport in Yemen's capital, Sanaa, on Wednesday, before leaving the country and did not hand them over to anyone, the Marine Corps said on Wednesday night, clarifying earlier Pentagon comments.

For this week’s cover article, Luke Mogelson wrote about his seven-week embed with marines in Helmand, one of the deadliest provinces in Afghanistan. Joël van Houdt took portraits of the marines that Mogelson traveled with.